Festivals and concert series
The Early Music festival scene in the UK is extraordinarily creative and adventurous. Emerging and established artists alike are bridging the gap between the past and the present with inspiring programmes at festivals and in concert series across the country.
London Festival of Baroque Music
‘London's leading festival of Early Music’ (Financial Times)
London Festival of Baroque Music is a week of creative brilliance – a Baroque world that erupts with sound and captivates the senses. For 2025, internationally acclaimed countertenor Iestyn Davies takes the artistic reins at the London Festival of Baroque Music, curating a programme that is vivid, bold, and exciting.
- 🍂Autumn festival
Sat, 1 November 2025 — Sat, 8 November 2025
St John's Smith Square, London
Coming Soon
London Bach Society
The London Bach Society was founded on 7 November 1946 in order to ‘get back to Bach in its original form’.
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Thu, 30 October 2025 — Sat, 15 November 2025
- City of London
Early Music at Wigmore Hall
Throughout the year- Thu, 30 October 2025
- Wigmore Hall, London
Music in the Round
- Throughout the year
- Fri, 31 October 2025
- Sheffield
Baroquestock Festival
- Throughout the year
- Fri, 31 October 2025
- Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead
Wimbledon International Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Sat, 1 November 2025
- Wimbledon
Coming Up Next
Hawkwood College
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 1 November 2025
- Painswick Old Road, Stroud GL6 7QW
Worcestershire Early Music
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 2 November 2025
- Old Bishop's Palace, Worcester
JdP Concert Series
- Throughout the year
- Tue, 4 November 2025
- The Chapel, St Hilda's College
Leamington Music
- ❄️Winter series
- Tue, 4 November 2025
- St Mary's Church, Warwick
Early Music at Wiltshire Music Centre
- Throughout the year
- Wed, 5 November 2025
- Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Cambridge Early Music
- Throughout the year
- Thu, 6 November 2025
- Cambridge
St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Throughout the year
- Thu, 6 November 2025
- St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Saxon Shore Early Music Kenardington
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 8 November 2025
- Church of St Mary, Kenardington, Ashford
Handel Hendrix House
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 8 November 2025
- Handel Hendrix House
St Clement Danes Sunday Recital Series
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 9 November 2025
- St Clement Danes Church, London
London International Festival of Early Music
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Wed, 12 November 2025
- Blackheath, London
Barbican Centre & Milton Court
- Throughout the year
- Fri, 14 November 2025
- Barbican Centre, London
Vermeer Chamber Concerts
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 16 November 2025
- London
London Handel Festival
- Throughout the year
- Wed, 19 November 2025
- St George's, Hanover Square
Colchester Early Music
- ❄️Winter series
- Sun, 23 November 2025
- St Andrew's Church, Marks Tey
Southbank Centre
- Throughout the year
- Thu, 27 November 2025
- Southbank, London
Concerts in the West
- Throughout the year
- Fri, 28 November 2025
- Ilminster, Somerset
Stoke Newington Early Music Festival
- Throughout the year
- Fri, 28 November 2025
- Stoke Newington, London
Saffron Hall
- Throughout the year
- Sat, 29 November 2025
- Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
Early Voices/Lleisiau Cynnar
- 🌱Spring festival
- Sun, 30 November 2025
- St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Plumstead Peculiars
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 30 November 2025
- The Ascension Church, Plumstead
Early Music at Kings Place
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 30 November 2025
- Kings Place, London
Little Missenden Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 5 December 2025
- Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire
Baroque at LSO St Luke's
- 🍂Autumn series
- Fri, 5 December 2025
- LSO St Luke's, Old Street, London
York Early Music Christmas Festival
- ❄️Winter festival
- Fri, 5 December 2025
- York
Temple Music Foundation
- Throughout the year
- Tue, 27 January 2026
- Temple, London
Mayfield Festival
- Throughout the year
- Sun, 26 April 2026
- Mayfield, East Sussex
Bristol Early Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- Fri, 8 May 2026
- All Saints Church, Clifton, Bristol
Chipping Campden Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- Mon, 11 May 2026
- St James' Church, Chipping Campden
Longborough Festival Opera
- ☀️Summer festival
- Sat, 30 May 2026
- Longborough, Gloucestershire
Brighton Early Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- Fri, 9 October 2026
- Brighton
Coming Later A-Z
Banbury Early Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- St Mary's Church, Banbury
Bath Bachfest
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Bath
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Beverley and East Riding, Yorkshire
Brecon Baroque Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Brecon
Burghclere Baroque
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Church of the Ascension, Burghclere
Buxton International Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Buxton
Concerts at the National Musicians' Church
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Holy Sepulchre Church, Holborn Viaduct
Dolmetsch Centenary at Haslemere Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Haslemere
Early & Baroque Music at the BBC Proms
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Royal Albert Hall, London
English Haydn Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- St Mary Magdalene Church, Bridgnorth
Esher Gibbons-Fest
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Old St George’s Church, Esher
Fairest Isle Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Isle of Wight - Newport, Ryde and Ventnor
Folkestone Early Music
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- The Grand Hotel, Folkestone
Garsington Opera
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Wormsley, Buckinghamshire
Harpsichord en Fête
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Saint Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh and King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen
Hatfield House Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Hatfield House, Hatfield, Herts
Iberian & Latin American Music Society
- 🍂Autumn series
- TBA
- Numerous venues - London & Manchester
Keble Early Music Festival
- ❄️Winter festival
- TBA
- Keble College Chapel, Oxford
King's Lynn Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- King's Lynn, Norfolk
Lammermuir Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Lammermuir, Scotland
Lewes Baroquefest
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Lewes, East Sussex
Lichfield Festival
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Lichfield, Staffordshire
Loki Music
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Southwest London
Machynlleth Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Machynlleth, Wales
Medieval Music in the Dales
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Bolton Castle, North Yorkshire
Music at Paxton
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Paxton House, Scottish Borders
Music in Country Churches
- ☀️Summer series
- TBA
- Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, East Sussex, Devon, Suffolk
Music@Malling
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- West Malling, Kent
New College Early Music Series
- ☀️Summer series
- TBA
- The New Space, Oxford
Newbury Spring Festival
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Newbury, Berkshire
Old Chapel Court Concerts
- ☀️Summer series
- TBA
- Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury
Otley Baroque
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- All Saints’ Church, Otley
Oxford Early Music by Candlelight
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
Oxford Festival of the Arts
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Oxford
Purbeck Art Weeks Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Various locations in the Purbecks, Dorset
Roman River Spring Concerts
- 🌱Spring series
- TBA
- Colchester, Essex
Salisbury Musick
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Salisbury Medieval Hall + other locations
Sands Films Music Room
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Rotherhithe, London
Shakespeare in Music
- 🌱Spring festival
- TBA
- Stratford-upon-Avon
St Cecilia's Hall
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- Edinburgh, Scotland
St George's Bristol Baroque Series
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- St George's Bristol
Stour Music
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph
Surrey Bach Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- St Mary’s Church, Stoke D’Abernon
Tetbury Music Festival
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- St Marys' Church, Tetbury
The Georgian Concert Society
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh
The Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Govan Old Parish Church, Govan & Linthouse Parish Church
The Grange Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Northington, Hampshire
The Music Summer School and Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Gresham's School, Holt
The Ryedale Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- Ryedale, North Yorkshire
Tilford Bach Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- All Saints Church, Tilford, Surrey
Unmeasured Chamber Concerts
- Throughout the year
- TBA
- The Octagon Chapel, Norwich
York Early Music Festival
- ☀️Summer festival
- TBA
- National Centre for Early Music, York
love:Handel
- 🍂Autumn festival
- TBA
- Norwich